Police: Luke Chrisco, Boulder potty-peeping suspect, used 'peepholes' to spy in other restrooms

A man accused of hiding in a portable toilet at a yoga festival and then running from security covered in feces last weekend has admitted that he used a series of "peepholes" to spy on women in more Boulder-area restrooms, according to detectives.

Boulder police said Friday that they have found several peepholes in businesses after interviewing Luke Irvin Chrisco.

The 30-year-old Grand Junction native was arrested Thursday in Vail, several days after a woman reported seeing a man hiding inside a Boulder portable toilet.

In a jailhouse phone interview with the Camera on Friday night, Chrisco admitted that he hid in the toilet tank to spy on women.

"I ended up at this yoga fest and I saw all these hot girls and I was like, 'I can't take this anymore, so many hot girls,'" Chrisco said. "I saw the Porta-Potties, and I said, 'I bet I could fit in this.'"

Chrisco said he regretted doing it but acknowledged he has been living the life of a "voyeur" and that peeping was his "way of worshiping life."

"I'm not one of those rapist guys," he told the Camera. "It was inappropriate, and it was an unfortunate thing I went down there. It's the opposite of what I want to do with my life, which is make women feel like goddesses.

"In retrospect, it was a very irresponsible thing to do."

Police said they are contacting business owners and "searching all restrooms in which Chrisco claimed to have spied."

Detectives have already confirmed the presence of peepholes in the restrooms of several local businesses, and "owners of those businesses are taking appropriate action to seal the holes," according to a news release.

Authorities are not releasing the names of the businesses because detectives are still conducting the investigation.

Police said Chrisco could face additional charges for the other alleged peeping incidents.

Chrisco is also connected to pornographic and sexually suggestive websites that list his occupation as a "porn star" and a male escort with "reasonable rates to sexy or clean people."

Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel confirmed Friday that Chrisco is linked to Max Extreme Models, which lists him as president on the agency's website.

"That is the person that we arrested," Kobel said.

On the modeling website, a photo gallery contains images of two females kissing in their underwear and other suggestive positions. A video clip on the site features a young female sitting by a pool in a bathing suit.

A statement on the website says, "This modeling and photography agency is intended to assist models to get into the industry."

Luke Chrisco's jail booking photo

According to records with the Colorado Secretary of State, Max Extreme Models is not a registered business. Chrisco also is not listed as a registered business owner for any company in Colorado.

A pornographic site apparently connected to Chrisco states that "girls bodies are as the holy temple of the conciousnes (sic) adoration of infinity and the only refuge from the infinite desert of the sands of time and desolution (sic)."

The headline on that site is "spirit porn."

According to The Smoking Gun, one of the sites linked to Chrisco advertises his services as a male escort. A classified ad posted by Chrisco offers himself and his 19-year-old girlfriend as "college dropout escorts."

Family: Chrisco is 'eccentric'

Family members said Chrisco is an "eccentric" person who is misunderstood, and they don't believe he was responsible for the bizarre toilet incident.

Thomas Chrisco, Luke Chrisco's younger brother, who lives in St. Joseph, Mich., said Friday that he doesn't believe his brother was the person hiding inside the toilet.

"Luke is a very unique person," Thomas Chrisco said. "I don't think any of these allegations are true."

He said his brother has been traveling the country and the world recently and that he's a street artist, painter and musician.

"Luke is an extremely brilliant human being," Thomas Chrisco said. "Through his brilliance, he's also very eccentric, and people misunderstand that sometimes."

He said his family is originally from Grand Junction, where Luke Chrisco attended Central High School before moving to Michigan.

He added that his brother is "resistant to the legal structure," but he's also a "kind soul and he loves people."

Adam Chrisco, another of Luke Chrisco's brothers, said the family has hired an attorney to handle the case.

"We don't know a lot," Adam Chrisco said from Grand Rapids, Mich. "We're looking to find out as much as we can. We love and support Luke, and we know in the end all this will be cleared up."

He said his brother had been traveling in Boulder to visit friends.

Jailed in Vail

The Max Extreme Models website lists Chrisco's name as Luke Chrisco and Skye Oryan. Boulder police said a witness to the toilet incident believed that the suspect goes by the name Skye.

Records with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation show that Chrisco has been arrested several times since 2001. The past charges against him have included failure to appear in court, possession of marijuana, trespassing and driving without a valid license.

Kobel said police are aware of the modeling website, but it's not necessarily part of the police investigation into the portable bathroom incident last week.

"I don't know that we've received any complaints from any of those people on the website," Kobel said.

On June 17, a woman at the Hanuman Yoga Festival in Boulder noticed something moving in the tank of a portable toilet, according to police. She left the toilet and asked a man who was standing nearby to look in the tank. He saw something moving under a tarp and, after he walked out, told officers he heard the door lock behind him. He later ran away and evaded security personnel.

Chrisco was arrested Thursday in a separate traffic incident along Interstate 70. Witnesses said he was panhandling near a gas station in Vail, and when police contacted him, an officer realized he resembled the suspect who was seen hiding inside the toilet.

Kobel said authorities are working to get in touch with the woman who first saw the man in the toilet, as she's not from Boulder and is traveling.

Chrisco faces possible charges of unlawful sexual contact and criminal invasion of privacy. He is being held on $1,000 bond for the traffic incident and $1,500 for the Boulder charges.

A spokeswoman for the Eagle County Sheriff's Office said Chrisco was being held at the Eagle County Jail on Friday afternoon, but he would eventually be transferred to Boulder.

Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said Friday that his office was still considering what charges to file.

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